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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Nov 9;20(1):47–63. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.003

Figure 4. Examples of Social Regulatory Strategies Targeting Different Phases of the Emotion-Generation Process.

Figure 4

Research examining the self-regulation of emotion categorizes regulatory strategies based on which phase in the emotion-generation process the strategy targets. In a similar fashion, the social regulation of emotion also involves strategies that impinge upon different phases in the emotion-generation cycle of the target. Regulators may choose to change features of the situation or elicitor, how the target directs attention to those features, the interpretation of their meaning by the target, or the outward affective behavior of the target.